Written by James M. Tate / 2/03/2019 / No comments / action , adventure , eighties , exploitation , martin hewitt , reb brown , rosalind chao , vietnam , war , wayne crawford , william katt
WILLIAM KATT & REB BROWN TOGETHER AGAIN IN 'WHITE GHOST'
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Reb Brown blasts away the 11th hour of White Ghost YEAR: 1988 |
And with WHITE GHOST there's a lesson on how to use William Katt's BIG WEDNESDAY pal, Reb Brown (who had resembled a skinny and large version of each other), the right and wrong way — starting with what not to do...
The mission to "rescue" and/or "recover" Katt's titular rogue from the jungle, where he's existed, obscured behind a phantom legacy (ala Tarzan) since the unpopular war's closure almost twenty years earlier, is headed by Reb Brown, portraying a very serious, seemingly passive major, addressing a round table of grimacing politicians wanting nothing to do with the near-historic error called Vietnam...
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Reb & Ronald |
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Wayne Crawford w/ JAKE SPEED thug Karl Johnson |
Katt's title yet extremely buried and subtle Steve Shepard teaches the kid a thing or two about preparing guns and bombs for an upcoming attack while providing his own backstory, which includes the usual "we burned villages with innocent women and children," a tragic real life element that's extremely overused in Vietnam flicks: Before this is an unintentionally hilarious moment showing the mercenaries first scene "in-country" – without having witnessed their arrival, there they are, trudging along, back in 'Nam as if in a nature center during summer vacation, and one guy says: "It smells the same," as another shouts back, "Maybe you're the one who smells!" This is paraphrased, but much of their dialogue's practically as awkward and banal...
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White Ghost: *** |
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Reb Brown & Rosalind Chao |
But once all the characters reach the high-octane pinnacle, WHITE GHOST, with little time left, goes wonderfully overboard, and Katt won't go down without a teeth-grinding fight, especially since Wayne Crawford's Captain Walker strives to take him back dead, not alive (still bitter about being "ratted-out" for burning that village), and, though dime-a-dozen in the "Missing in Action" style sub-genre, this obscure curio moves decently enough so what fails as a war-related vehicle winds up a semi-decent action flick.
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Red Brown says farewell to the Vietnam-departing William Katt in BIG WEDNESDAY |
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